It’s been almost a year now that I’ve been doing predominantly ‘guerrilla’ design research. For me, this means testing in the field with a minimum of time, budget and fuss so that this kind of activity and the insight it provides is available to pretty much any client/budget/timeframe.
One of the first challenges for guerrilla design [...]

We’re doing some research on a new social communication platform and need your help. More specifically - we need you and three friends you communicate with regularly online.
It’s a bit of an extended research project and you’ll need to be available for an interview in London between 17-20 December, and then again in the new [...]

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This weekend I went to BarCamp and it was great. Always good to catch up with fellow campers and hear what’s on their minds.

What was on my mind this weekend was DIY User Research - you can see my slides above. This took me a little out of [...]

I’ve got another research project looking for participants - do you fit the bill or know someone who does?
We’re looking for people between the ages of 18-29 (guys and girls) who currently single and who use social networking tools like FaceBook, MySpace etc. to stay in touch with friends and who have either met [...]

(a quick definition, given that I’ve discovered that English is at least three separate languages: to rock out = to perform exceptionally well and give great satisfaction, as say, a rock band might ‘rock out’ on stage’.)
These days when I’m doing any kind of user research, rather than going to my secret consultant place and [...]

I’m doing some guerrilla research for a new web service this Friday and Saturday in London and I’m looking for participants. The specs are pretty loose - you need to use internet banking and be responsible for managing your own and/or your household’s finances. (You’re not allowed to be a financial expert tho, or extraordinarily [...]

So, recently we’ve been talking about Qualitative Research and how it’s not so scientific, but that ain’t bad.
We identified three ways that you *might* make Qualitative Research more scientific and have been pulling those approaches apart. They are to:

Use a relatively large sample size (which we destroyed here)
Ensure that your test environment doesn’t change (which [...]

So, earlier we were talking about whether you can or should attempt to make qualitative research more scientific, and that there are three ways you might go about doing this, being to:

Use a relatively large sample size (deconstructed in Part One)

Ensure that your test environment doesn’t change (which we’ll talk about now)
Ensure that your test [...]

If you’re into qualitative research at all, it wouldn’t have taken long before you had someone ask you about the statistical significance of your research and how you could back your findings with such a small sample size, or to find others out there trying to make qualitative research look more scientific by trying to [...]

Who knew a games controller could wreak such havok. Head over to WiiHaveAProblem and be astounded by the number of TV sets that people have taken out when they’ve been playing with their new Wii and the controller has been thrown out of their hands with such force as to break the strap. Carnage ensues.
What [...]